I don’t respect the opinion of anyone who can’t even get players names right

This dude is a clown lol

Keep Kentucky out of your mouth until you get a history lesson.

“They went out of their way to push him out”…you said that 10 seconds in. The guy took another job and left after Barnhart publicly supported him. 🤫

Calipari wasn’t pushed out-he left. These are the most ill-informed “commentators” I’ve seen on the internet.

I want that 5 minutes of my life back....couldn't even watch the full 10. You don't have the first clue.

Total clown 🤡 why can't they just say they are a Cal fan or not a UK fan instead

Pope has already generated more excitement than Kentucky fans have felt in over a decade. The change was very necessary.

These guys has no idea what they are talking about!

John Calipari and Mark Pope each had an opportunity this past season to beat the snot out of Kansas. One of them did it. FYI, it was the same guy that filled Rupp Arena to the rafters for his press conference. Note that 5000 people had to be turned away.

Perfect example of too much time and a shitty opinion with very little knowledge.

Man, such a bad take. Embarrassing

Two weeks later and this video already hasn't aged well.

This little guy needs to go back and do his homework on what Mark Pope has done, and what Cal hasn't been able to do. In Cals 32 years of being a head coach, he has only won ONE national championship. And he wasn't getting anywhere with his one and done mentally that he would not change. All he cared about was getting "his kid's" into the NBA or some other Professional league, just so he was able to bring in the next ones.

The fans did not push Calipari out. They mostly loved him. Big money contributors to the program put the necessary pressure on Calipari's departure. John Calipari is a good man and one hell of a coach. Mark Pope is also a very good man and a fantastic coach. He will do just fine!

I'm pretty sure you guys are right that Coach Pope played for Rick Pitino sometime in the past.... I'm 96 percent sure they won a title together. Also, hopefully those fans at Arkansas don't complain too much if Coach Cal doesn't win any tournament games for 4 or 5 years with the top recruits in the country.... They might force him to resign and take another job where the university boosters are offering huge NIL money...

Never underestimate the power of Mark Pope. He was highly recommended by Rick Pitino when Rick left Kentucky for the Celtics. Pope is the only Rhodes Scholar coaching in D-1 basketball. He was the Captain of a National Championship team. In a mere two weeks he has recruited an awesome group from the portal! I loved having Calipari at Kentucky, but at a time when big money controls coaching hires, Mark Pope was a great replacement! Don't worry, with Pope brilliance and the "Kentucky Brand", Kentucky basketball will do just fine! Great job Mitch Barnhart!

You totally underestimate the abilities of Mark Pope. Mark Pope was the captain of the 1978 NCAA championship game. When Pitino left Kentucky he recommended Mark Pope as a replacement. Mark Pope is a Rhodes scholar and played 10 years in the pros. He is the only Rhodes scholar coaching D-1 Basketball. He did a great job at BYU, which is extremely hard to recruit players to. They have many disliked rules including early curfew, no alcohol anywhere and no Coffee on campus! In two weeks, Pope has really recruited more talent than anyone shopping in the portal. Kentucky fans are super pleased with Popes aggressive and successful recruiting. His on the floor coaching is much like Rick Pitino with an added flair. I loved the Calipari years at Kentucky, but do

Wait and see! Mark Pope is awesome. To recruit at BYU successfully says a lot. He was the the recommended Coach to replace Pitino when Pitino went to Boston. He has a very high IQ, was captain of the KY National Championship with Jeff Shepard, played 9 years in the pros and has a passion for Kentucky Basketball. I liked Calipari a lot and wanted him to stay, but Mark Pope will do just fine.

First off, it wasn't a lifetime coaching contract, it was a 10 year extension. Second, it was in 2019 that he signed the extension.

Great! Now do the same as you just did for Pope with Coach K before Duke, Bobby Knight before Indiana, Jim Calhoun before UConn, etc. And you're right. When Calipari left, a bunch of 5 star recruits left too. Like all the 5 star recruits that leave every year after not getting far in the tournament the past 5 seasons. It's a stretch to say that the incoming class for next year would have done better. If it takes a few years to rebuild and there's more 3/4 star recruits staying for 3/4 years developing and getting better as there were 5 star recruits wearing the jersey for 6 months, most Kentucky fans are ok with that. These days 1 and done players don't get it done in March. Player development and the transfer portal does. This video will age as well as Velveeta in the sun.

Mark Pope finished higher in the Kenpom than Calipari 3 of the last 5 years. One of those coaches had NBA talent all over the roster, and the other had a merry band of mormons willing to sign honor codes. That should tell you everything you need to know. Calipari was a great coach ten years ago, but that guy is gone. It happens sometimes. Look at the end of Bob Knight's career. Sometimes even legends fade out.

Cal has been losing to below bottom coaches for years.

If you guys had to listen to Calipari’s 💩 for the last 5 years. Since signing the so called lifetime contract. He takes Kentucky to a 9 win season. 3 first round bounces from the SEC tournament, 2 first round bounces from the NCAA tournament. All while have a top 5 recruiting class every season and national player of the year for one of those seasons. You can’t over talent Calipari’s incompetence.

Funny how they think Cal is UK. UK has been a powerhouse way before Cal was even thought of. UK is fine and will be fine! You all just hoping like hell they ain’t but that’ll never happen. GO BIG BLUE!!!!!! 🏀🐱🏆

Well, I’m a Kentucky fan. Cal has ALWAYS had the top recruiting class and won it all only once in 15 years. Not great. Why be impressed with that?

Obviously this guy is not a Kentucky fan and does not understand what is truly going on.

Cal cannot coach period 3 coaches in the sec said before the season started that they wasn't worried about Cal because he's ran the same plays for the last 15 years. Pope is a great x's and o's coach.

As a Tennessee fan that lives in Lexington, I think it’s a solid hire. Why not take a chance. He’s gonna get players. Plus his system is good.

GROW UP KIDS BEFORE THE WORD KENTUCKY COMES OUT OF YOUR MOUTH

As a Kentuckian, imo Cal was not using his players in the best way or giving them the plays that would benefit their playstyles the most. The best example is having your best shooter (who arguably is shepard) not starting as well as your best driver/ball handler not starting either which was Dillingham. Who does that??? Don't get me wrong reeves is good but he was hit or miss at times and the rebounding when he would miss just wasn't there. You had often the most rebounds coming from Shepard (the shortest guy) at times. This tells me Shepard didn't need to be the point guard at all. He needed to be freed up for the 3 and inside shots. The point guards should have been Dillingham and DJ should have been the back up guy. Ugonna Onyenso was under used from the beginning who had standout games in 2019. Aidoo didn't get enough playtime and could have helped on defense against the Oakland 3 point shooter. Cal talked about bringing in two bigs and switching things up when they lost the SEC tourney. Then he did none of that and the only change he made was he put back in Trey Mitchel who was under preforming. Now he did do better in that game but he isn't known as a defensive player. It's not the first time Cal has made poor decisions and played his golden boys and failed to put someone in the game who would be a difference maker for the team on defense. Back in 2017 he said he "forgot" about Nick Richards after benching him for doing something wrong. Yeah sat him down towards the beginning of the 2nd half and didn't bring him back in at all. We lost that game by a bucket which was a simple jumper that could have been blocked but we didn't have a big on the floor in that moment. Kentucky hasn't had two top defenders in the NCAA since 2019. Defense wins basketball games so regardless of Mark Pope not winning with previous lower budget schools...If he is doing somewhat the opposite of what Cal was focusing on then maybe there's a chance for Kentucky to be a factor in the tournaments this year. Now I will say that the cats probably will need a couple of 7 foot + bigs to fill the roster or Kentucky may be in trouble. BTW Cal was already negotiating leaving during our tournament and didn't decide to tell us until after when he was trying to get players to go with him so he wouldn't feel as bad for job shopping during our tournament time.

Dude, ya’ll have 257 followers ! 😂😂 Good luck!

How many five-star players does it take to lose in the first round of the NCAA's? I don't know, ask Cal, he knows!

Brother he had 1 tournament win in 5 years with the best recruiting classes

this aged bad in just 3 weeks lol, uk got lamont butler andrew carr and koby brea lol

The texas gear tells me not to listen to hoops talk. Win a few years in the SEC and you’ll get some experience. I heard Kieth Jackson once say they you can tell a texas anywhere, but you can’t tell a Texan anything. Kentucky fans and talking heads dealt with this stuff early on. The brand is diminished with no way out. It was time to flush the commode. We’d eat take this laughter than settle for where we were trapped. Nobody in texas has won enough of anything besides baseball to understand this. You’re simple and presumptuous in your arrogance.

Pope was on the 1996 cham7 Team, the captain of the team....

Did you know also know that he wanted more money to stay? Toll whole story not just 1 side sir .

As a cats fan i will miss Calipari. But having new faces ever year is tough. No chemistry, and that doesn't go well when March rolls around. I do think Pope will be a good coach, and if we can get some shooters from the portal we will drop sooooo many 3s. You saw what happened to Purdue. Big man ball just isn't enough vs a decent 3 point shooting team. This is where i think we will shine. From the 3. Aswell our defense should be better. You should peep some of the games BYU played last yr and look what he did at a Mormon school. This is KY basketball. We gonna drain that 3 ball.

stop running your mouth young man and wait and see what he does

Mark pope also didn’t have 6 years of 5 star teams like cal! Call had the best teams and always lost! Cal is a horrible c and o coach and if you don’t agree with that not my problem

Cal is a good recruiting coach. He has a way of turning 5 star players into 4 & 3 star players! Playing inconsistent. He makes them mediocre! Can't even win an SEC Championship!

he is not a great coach. cal is about getting player into the NBA, player that would still be in the NBA even if they would have went to a mid-major college. Cal have had a top 5 class every year he have been at UK, with only 1 championship to show for it (Kentucky got lucky to win the title that year). so with all of these top classes, Cal had miss the ncaa tment 2 times. 1 trip to the NIT where they lose in the first round of the NIT as a 1 seed. then the next time when cal post a 9-16 record also the worst record since the 1920's.

Saying Reed Wagner and then calling Z a Russian...just stop talking.

Keep that same energy.

I love that podcasts ran by fans of other teams still want to talk about UK rather than their team haha. Bro, all that Texas gear tells me you should just talk about football on here and leave basketball to the adults

This is the Beavis and buthead show Dude before you get on here starting on Kentucky do your research first please

This video aged well. lol NOT! Pope signed the #2 portal class and will start 5 upper classmen (4 of them in the top 150) that have all won game in the tournament. Not to mention he has assembled one of the best coaching staffs in the nation. AND Pope is a significant upgrade in the X’s and O’s. Sounds like a significant upgrade to me. Question is, are you going to eat that crow? If you don’t, I can’t see how you can take yourself serious let alone anyone else.

Look at last years team and he failed like this pod cast.

I respect everyone’s opinion…. But you might want to do a bit more research on things before making a show …. There more deeper things to situation to much to mention here … Cal is not an X and O guy he lost his guy in 2018 that did that for him . The way he dose things can get a stable team year after year. You can’t loose 8 or 9 guys every year and start over every year … Kentucky became a NBA training camp for 1 year… you only get to see 50 to 65 percent of players potential and no core team returning, that’s hard to do every year. There much much more on both sides of situation to discuss here .

Horrendous take. Cal had more talent than anyone the last 5 years and had one single tourney win. Pope could coach circles around him.

Man, you don’t know a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff. I could change your mind in five minutes. You were misinformed about the coaching search.Lol

Everybody has opinions it's like assholes but wait till next year and then you come back and say wow what was I thinkin go cats

hes a recruiter not Coach thats why they lost First round

I don't think they pushed cal out because he stopped winning we haven't been winning for years he left on his own choice they were putting pressure on him because he stopped caring about UK and UK fans were expecting to get one of the best coaches in the county because of media programs like this one consistently saying UK should go after these big name coaches so stop hiding your bais (you suck at it)and stop talking out of both sides of your mouths.and just admit that you were apart of the push for UK to go after coaches

2 Dudes that obviously know nothing of what they speak. Pretty par for the course.

You guys have no idea what you’re taking about lmao

Still carry the same opinion some three weeks later? 😂

Slobberknocker miss fire!

LOL this take will not age well. Pope will be successful for sure just put together one of the best coaching staffs out there especially recruiting wise. And can coach circles around Cal. Also killing it in the transfer portal. And Kentucky still carry's a lot of clout from the name alone whether you like it or not. Legendary coach at Marquette Al McGuire said it best like it or not Kentucky was there before you, there during you and will be there after you facts. That's been true as long as collage basketball has been relevant.

Longhorns fan XD

WE BELIEVE IN POPE AN WE HAVE HIS BACK 1000%. POPE WILL WIN 🏆 #9 GOOOO CATS 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀

Look byu is not UK you think byu gets great players I don't think so UK is the Roman empire of college basketball with pope he will build that culture again with players that will play more what's in front of the jersey and not in the back and don't forget he played for rick with that great 96 team using that same style of basketball high octane fast paced shooting offense and relentless defense witch ran teams out the gym on rout to the title give him a chance and see what happens he took byu as far as it can go remember byu is not a blue blood basketball school kentucky is

ever try to recruit at Byu

Bruh 🤣funniest thing I seen all day. Calipari is 1-4 in NCAA tournament in last 4 years with an incredible amount of talent on his team. You think that's better than being 0-2 with way less talent. Make that make sense?

these guys know how to get clicks on youtube. Just talk random shit and people will come to laugh at you. like clowns at the circus

You know crap!

This dude is a clown 😂😂😂😂 has no knowledge on what he's talkin abt

Wow this video blows my mind with so much ignorance. You have no clue about Kentucky basketball. Cal was pushed out because he wasn’t winning natty’s. It wasn’t just the tourney wins. Cal couldn’t even compete in the sec conference. Both of you dont have the slightest clue about the situation at all.

Go away!

Yeah the last 5 years Cal had the top recruiting class and didn’t win shit. So that don’t get you much. I think it’s a great hire and there’s no coach that won a title before getting a big league job.

My question would be: What's Rick Pitino's feelings towards Kentucky since leaving? Because without his endorsement, I don't see Pope getting the job.

We also like coaches who don’t kneel for the flag.

I think he’ll be run out of town within 3 years. When BYU was in the WCC they were always losing to teams they should’ve beat. BYU looks like is coming out the winner in this coaching change.

He right though 😂😂 ..oh boy a lot of Kentucky fan piss right now 😂😂😂

Kentucky fans about to take a big bite of some humble pie 😂

OMG this is so funny how right these guys are. Mark Pope looks like most UK fans: Inbred

I bet he still loves in his parents basement

I actually can't believe how many Kentucky fans are justifying bothering their coach into taking another job in the same conference. Have fun with mediocrity small blue! Y'all deserve it

As a Razorback fan I hope Pope blows it for sure. He doesn't have a big time resume that's true. However, winning at kentucky is probably easier than any other job in the nation. Makes me sick to say that 🤣 Pope will will do well I believe...not saying he will win a title, but at kentucky I think he will do good. All that aside...Woo Pig Sooie!!!

sorry dude you have no clue what your talking about . he can't get the 4 or 5 star's at byu like at uk . mr pope did something that coach that coach cal never done ,he beat the zag . no body force cal out ,he had left on his own ,life time contract . listen to what ricky P has to say about mark pope .

Goober

This kid is a clown! 🤡 What a worthless bum!

UK fans are classic. Thought they were getting Dan Hurley. After 27 coaches turned them down they hire this guy. Not one UK fan ever uttered "Mark Pope" as a top college coach in the last 10 years, and now he's the best coach to ever grace this earth. In 3 years when he's lost in the 1st round twice and missed the tourney they'll be running him out of town 🤣😂🤣

Kentucky is not Utah State or BYU Pope will be able to get great ballplayers here and BTW dude you don't know what the he'll you're talking about

Wow, you guys really just don't know anything, do you...